Christabel [VHS]
by Adrian Shergold
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Actor: Ann Bell, Elizabeth Hurley, Geoffrey Palmer, Nigel Le Vaillant, Stephen DillaneDirector: Adrian Shergold
Cinematographer: Remi Adefarasin
Editor: Clare Douglas
Producer: Kenith Trodd
Writer: Christabel Bielenberg
Writer: Dennis Potter
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 149 minutes
Release Date: 1993-12-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Studio: 20th Century Fox
VHS Movie Reviews of Christabel [VHS]
Movie Review: Excellent WWII film shows impact on civilians
Summary: 5 Stars
CHRISTABEL (TV-UK-1988) - Elizabeth Hurley, Stephen Dillane
Uniformly excellent, thought-provoking BBC-TV movie based on Christabel Burton Bielenberg's autobiography chronicles her marriage just prior to WWII to a German national and relocation to first Berlin and then a home in the Black Forest.
In a study of contrasts and just one stark scene of many, a friend of English-born Christabel (a niece of two Lords) and her husband Peter has been convicted in a failed 1944 assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler. As he hangs just two feet off the floor, conscious and slowly suffocating from a piano wire garrotte, there's a shift to a children's church choir singing "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht" as Christabel looks on.
Several Allied carpet bomb raids are given a civilian view, as terrified Berliners huddle together -sometimes unprotected- while clusters of eight explosive devices fall. "Christabel" is one of the most effective films in portraying such horrors. Surviving losers in war must go on with their lives despite poverty, hunger, homelessness and widespead destruction. Here, we expereince that reality also.
This remarkable motion picture eschews politics to concentrate on the lives of PEOPLE, specifically non-combatants, often the most fragile and first to be lost during all-out war.
As of 10/09, the uncut version of "Christabel" was only available on DVD in MILL CREEK ENTERTAINMENT's BOX OFFICE GOLD 50 Movie Pack.
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